Which member of the girl band 'Spice Girls' was not originally selected for the group?

Emma Lee Bunton (born 21 January 1976) was the last person to join the girl band 'Spice Girls'. Emma is an English singer, songwriter, actress, and radio and television presenter. She began as a radio presenter on the Heart Breakfast show in London with Jamie Theakston and presenting her own show on Saturday between 5 and 7 p.m.

The Spice Girls were an English pop girl group formed in 1994. The group originally consisted of Melanie Brown ("Scary Spice"), Melanie Chisholm ("Sporty Spice"), Emma Bunton ("Baby Spice"), Geri Halliwell ("Ginger Spice"), and Victoria Beckham, née Adams ("Posh Spice"). They were signed to Virgin Records and released their debut single "Wannabe" in 1996, which hit number one in 37 countries and established them as a global phenomenon.

In 1994, Melanie Brown, Melanie Chisholm, Geri Halliwell, and Victoria Adams responded to an advertisement in The Stage magazine. Around 400 women who answered the ad went to Dance Works studios. Halliwell, Chisholm, Beckham (née Adams), and Brown were originally chosen as the members of the group, along with Michelle Stephenson. Due to Stephenson's lack of commitment she was eventually replaced with Emma Bunton.

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teacherchicky

I just saw the E True Hollywood Story on the Spice Girls and that's not really how it happened but close enough and since the answer is correct, I'll let it slide.

Nicholas Miernicki

Fascinating....NOT!

Claudia Heilke

Neither Emma or Victoria was an original member.

William Laughlin

jshehan, It's not so much your age that's showing,but your jaded cynicism.

Stevie G

Norm Ireland, Bruce Ford, Chrissy Krainock Luders, Original is the word that makes this correct as it states in the link given by Chrissy Krainock Luders. The original line-up that started recording did not include Emma Bunton.

Norm Ireland

You are WRONG!!

Bob Bracegirdle

Guessed right. Correctly I know nothing of this group.

Bruce Ford

Chrissy Krainock Luders, note posting just made to further confirm your finding.

Bruce Ford

http://spicegirls.wikia.com/wiki/Spice_Girls Second data source that confirms exactly what Chrissy Krainock Luders reported in this thread two hours ago. "The line-up changed when Melanie Laccohee was offered to sing solo and replaced with Victoria Beckham and because of the bomb scare on the London tube that caused Suzanne Tinker to unable to arrive at the last set of auditions, subsequently causing Geri Halliwell to replace her." Some subjects simply require better research than depending on Wikipedia, which is a crowd-sourced online encyclopedia ripe with errors.